During World War II my father, Bob LaFara, was a crew member on a B24 bomber in the South Pacific. The crew was part of the US Army Air Corps’ 819th Bomb Squadron.
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Military Blog Posts
Fire
Family legend holds that my 3rd great grandfather witnessed the famed Battle of Baltimore at Fort McHenry during the War of 1812. Can I prove it really happened?
Luck
I wonder how my ancestors avoided becoming infected with the 1918 influenza. Would it be luck?
David L. Osborne, Civil War Soldier
A brief biography of my great grandfather, David Louis Osborne, 1847-1942, highlighting his time as a Union soldier with the 83rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War.
Letter from Sarah Tucker Lafary
A handwritten letter from Sarah Tucker Lafary to the then president of the United States, Grover Cleveland. It was her last appeal for a War of 1812 pension, sadly the pension was denied. The letter gives a glimpse of a woman who had no formal education, a poor farmers wife, then widow, mother of nine, she probably just wanted some independence through an income of her own.